Scientists have long studied the sun, our solar system’s life-giving star, trying to understand its behavior, solar flares, ...

How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of ...

A mesmerising side-view video of a massive solar flare goes viral with eerie crackling sounds from real Nasa data.

On December 8, 2025, the sun unleashed a significant solar flare, classified as an X-class event, raising concerns among scientists and technology experts alike. This article will explore the ...

A NASA mission to study the heliosphere—the sun's magnetic bubble that shields our solar system—and develop a better understanding of space weather was launched from the agency's Kennedy Space Center ...

Have you ever wondered just how big space really is? It’s huge. In fact, it’s astronomical! The Colorado Scale Model Solar System depicts the Sun, the planets, and the distances between them all on ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Our solar system has been around for 4.6 billion years. While that sounds like a long time, it's ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...

"These images are not just pretty." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It was 4 a.m. on Nov. 25 at the top of Hawaii's dormant ...